CHALOUS (Iran): Army helicopters ferried rescue teams into mountain villages in northern and central Iran yesterday, where a senior Iranian Red Crescent official said the death toll from a powerful earthquake rose to 35 and that 250 people were injured.
Twenty aftershocks were reported after Friday's quake, including one of magnitude 4.6 yesterday morning in the south-eastern city of Bam that state-run Teheran television reported caused some damage but no casualties.
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